Generally arranged in chronological order, the 50 paintings provide both a rich visual feast and an understanding of the competitive market challenges faced by the one pre-eminent artist in a familiar niche of Italian art: the vedutisti , or painters of cities and seascapes.

The jury is still out on that one, but here I am, getting some quality time in with the people who raised me, and evaluating my current life in the cold rainy winter daylight, without any dreamy Mediterranean seascapes to cloud my vision.